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Beginning Android
Dear Reader,
First, welcome to the world of Android! We’re entering a new era of mobile
application development, one marked by open platforms and open source, to
take ‘walled gardens’ and make them green houses for any and all to participate
in. Android is relatively easy for developers, and I believe that this innovation
will help generate a large ecosystem of developers and consumers within a
very short time. This means that budding developers such as yourself will have
many opportunities to design and build your own applications and you’ll have
a huge and hungry customer base.
Second, welcome to the book! Its purpose is to start you on your way with
building Android applications, and to help you master the learning curve.
Android is already a rich framework, comparable in many ways to the richness
of desktop Java environments. This means that there is a lot of cool stuff for you
to pick up along your journey in order to create the slickest, most useful apps
you can imagine.
The source code for the code samples in this book is all available from the
Apress site, so you can stay as hands-on and practical as you like while I intro-
duce you to the core of Android, and invite you to experiment with the various
classes and APIs we’ll be looking at. By the time you’ve finished this book, you’ll
be creating your own Android applications and asking yourself what your next
great application will be...!
Enjoy!
Mark Murphy
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Master Android from first principles
and begin the journey toward your
own successful Android applications!
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